"On December 13th and 14th, the first-ever middle school Fashion exhibit took place. For the past few years, Fashion Design has been a high school emphasis, but this year it was finally opened up to the middle school. "​-Shayna barzell-weber

On December 13th and 14th, the first-ever middle school Fashion exhibit took place. For the past few years, Fashion Design has been a high school emphasis, but this year it was finally opened up to the middle school.

Each piece was really cool and you could tell people put a lot of work into their pieces. There were dresses, skirts, shirts, head dresses, and pillows, all inspired by different countries. While talking to Eden Ceasreo- Dense, an 8th grader in Fashion Design, about the theme and preparation of the show, she said, “First, we each picked a country and then we just picked what inspired us about that country. It could be the food, architecture, clothing, culture, etc.” After picking a country and an inspiration, students sketched out what they wanted to make and they got their materials.

To add a little challenge, Ms. Linda, the Fashion Design teacher, had them use only materials they already had, or thrifted items. “I decided to make it more complicated and added that they had to use recycled materials or unusual materials,” Ms. Linda said. The whole process took them about five weeks, but after working hard for five weeks, they were ready for the exhibit.

Each piece is either on a dress form, a manikin head, or a table. Behind each piece, some people put artwork relating to their country or their countries flag. Along with that, everyone put their logo and their artist statement.

“Every year, my family and I celebrate Chinese New Year. Although I’m only half Chinese, that time of year has always been special. It means going to Chinatown to watch the dragons dance to the drums and receiving lei see from our elders,” Poinciana Hung-Haas, an 8th grader in fashion design, wrote in her her artist statement.

Along with all their hard work being put out into the world for people to see, this project helped their class become closer. “We’ve been having a good year but until we did that show we weren’t really a solid group yet,” Ms Linda said. “I felt like we got to go through an experience all together, well everyone had their own pieces, we had one show.”

Even though it was a stressful project for some, everyone had a lot of fun making their pieces and putting them out into the world for people to see. And in Eden’s words, “It was a really fun project that got my creative juices flowing.”